If You Liked Heaven & Earth, Watch These Next
Finished Heaven & Earth (1993) and want more of the same? These 20 movies are what its fans watched next, ranked by how often people who liked it also liked these. Like Heaven & Earth, most of them are history, war, drama.
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20 titles · updated 2nd October 2026
1.Casualties of War(1989)
7.2DramaHistoryWarAlso drama and history
During the Vietnam War, a soldier finds himself the outsider of his own squad when they unnecessarily kidnap a female villager.
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2.The Last Full Measure(2020)
7.3DramaActionWarAlso drama and war
The incredible true story of Vietnam War hero William H. Pitsenbarger, a U.S. Air Force Pararescuemen medic who personally saved over sixty men. Thirty-two years later, Pentagon staffer Scott Huffman investigates a Congressional Medal of Honor request for Pitsenbarger and uncovers a high-level conspiracy behind the…
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4.Born on the Fourth of July(1989)
7.0DramaWarAlso drama and war
Paralyzed in the Vietnam war, Ron Kovic becomes an anti-war and pro-human rights political activist after feeling betrayed by the country he fought for.
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5.The Killing Fields(1984)
7.5DramaHistoryWarAlso drama and history
New York Times reporter Sydney Schanberg is on assignment covering the Cambodian Civil War, with the help of local interpreter Dith Pran and American photojournalist Al Rockoff. When the U.S. Army pulls out amid escalating violence, Schanberg makes exit arrangements for Pran and his family. Pran, however, tells…
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7.We Were Soldiers(2002)
7.1ActionHistoryWarAlso history and war
The year is 1965 and America is at war with North Vietnam. Commanding the air cavalry is Lt. Col. Hal Moore (Gibson), a born leader committed to his troops. His target: the Ia Drang Valley, called "The Valley of Death." As Moore prepares for one of the most violent battles in U.S. history, he delivers a stirring…
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8.Bat★21(1988)
6.3ActionWarDramaAlso war and drama
Lt. Col. Iceal "Ham" Hambleton is a weapons countermeasures expert and when his aircraft is shot over enemy territory the Air Force very much wants to get him back. Hambleton knows the area he's in is going to be carpet-bombed but a temporary shortage of helicopters causes a delay. Working with an Air Force…
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9.Apocalypse Now(1979)
8.3DramaWarAlso drama and war
At the height of the Vietnam war, Captain Benjamin Willard is sent on a dangerous mission that, officially, "does not exist, nor will it ever exist." His goal is to locate - and eliminate - a mysterious Green Beret Colonel named Walter Kurtz, who has been leading his personal army on illegal guerrilla missions into…
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11.Beasts of No Nation(2015)
7.6DramaWarAlso drama and war
Based on the experiences of Agu, a child fighting in the civil war of a West African country. Follows Agu's journey as he's forced to join a group of soldiers. While he fears his commander and many of the men around him, his fledgling childhood has been brutally shattered by the war raging through his country, and he…
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12.Missing in Action 2: The Beginning(1985)
5.8ActionWarDramaAlso war and drama
Prequel to the first Missing In Action, set in the early 1980s it shows the capture of Colonel Braddock during the Vietnam war in the 1970s, and his captivity with other American POWs in a brutal prison camp, and his plans to escape.
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13.Uncommon Valor(1983)
6.2DramaWarActionAlso drama and war
A group of Vietnam War veterans re-unite to rescue one of their own left behind and taken prisoner by the Vietnamese.
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14.Full Metal Jacket(1987)
8.1DramaWarAlso drama and war
A pragmatic U.S. Marine observes the dehumanizing effects the U.S.-Vietnam War has on his fellow recruits from their brutal boot camp training to the bloody street fighting in Hue.
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15.The Secrets We Keep(2020)
6.0ThrillerHistoryDramaAlso history and drama
In post-World War II America, a woman, rebuilding her life in the suburbs with her husband, kidnaps her neighbor and seeks vengeance for the heinous war crimes she believes he committed against her.
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16.The Last of the Mohicans(1992)
7.4HistoryWarDramaAlso history and war
In war-torn colonial America, in the midst of a bloody battle between British, the French and Native American allies, the aristocratic daughter of a British Colonel and her party are captured by a group of Huron warriors. Fortunately, a group of three Mohican trappers comes to their rescue.
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17.Danger Close: The Battle of Long Tan(2019)
6.8WarDramaHistoryAlso war and drama
Vietnam War, 1966. Australia and New Zealand send troops to support the United States and South Vietnamese in their fight against the communist North. Soldiers are very young men, recruits and volunteers who have never been involved in a combat. On August 18th, members of Delta Company will face the true horror of a…
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18.Field of Lost Shoes(2015)
6.1WarDramaHistoryAlso war and drama
A group of teenage cadets sheltered from war at the Virginia Military Institute must confront the horrors of an adult world when they are called upon to defend the Shenandoah Valley.
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19.The Deer Hunter(1978)
8.0DramaWarAlso drama and war
Three steelworkers enlist in the army and are sent to Vietnam, one leaving behind a rushed marriage, the others a shared love. What they encounter during the war changes their lives forever.
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20.Gardens of Stone(1987)
6.2WarDramaHistoryAlso war and drama
At Arlington National Cemetery during the Vietnam era, veteran sergeant Clell Hazard trains young soldiers while mourning those lost in combat. Unable to return to war himself, he mentors Jackie Willow—the idealistic son of a fallen comrade—hoping to prepare him for the realities of Vietnam and the cost of duty.
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